July 2018 – Open Arts Extra

July 17, 2018July 17, 2018

Open Arts Objects films

Have you had a chance to view any of our films? We’ve got over 30 free open access films on a range of works of art. Check them out here: http://www.openartsarchive.org/open-arts-objects

Enjoy!

July 9, 2018August 14, 2018

{why art history matters at the OU}

In August, we’ll be showcasing some of the reasons why art history matters to us, here at the OU. Featuring blogposts & films from current students, alumni, curators, academics, artists, and more, it’ll give us a chance to showcase to the world all the reasons why art history matters, and why it’s still important in today’s world.

So stay tuned!

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#tbt to 5 years ago when we did our very first #fi

#tbt to 5 years ago when we did our very first #filming ever for #openartsobjects.

#arthistory #ouarthistory #artists #historyofart #OUrArtHistory #artstagram #artoftheday #arteducation #art #whyarthistorymatters #artmatters #arteducationmatters

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Join us THIS FRIDAY, February 26th at 1:00pm EST for Three Views on Open Educational Resources. One of our speakers will be @tinzarella sharing her work on @openartsobjects Link in Bio #openarthistories #opened #oer #oep #artxhistory #art #pedagogy #openartsobjects #open

Today's #materialmondays celebrates #snowdropseaso

Today's #materialmondays celebrates #snowdropseason! ‘Variation on a Snowdrop IV’ by Denis McBride, housed in the @ulstermuseum, Belfast. Have you been on any local walks to see the snowdrops?

Photo credit: National Museums Northern Ireland from @artukdotorg.

#spring #artandnature #arthistory #ouarthistory #artists #historyofart #OUrArtHistory #artstagram #artoftheday #arteducation #art #whyarthistorymatters #artmatters #arteducationmatters

Sunday marked the #Transfiguration in the Christia

Sunday marked the #Transfiguration in the Christian calendar. Today's #materialmondays is a very early representation of the complex theological/Biblical event: a #mosaic in the apse of Sant' Apollinare in Classe in #Ravenna dating from the 6th century.

#arthistory #ouarthistory #artists #historyofart #OUrArtHistory #artstagram #artoftheday #arteducation #art #whyarthistorymatters #artmatters #arteducationmatters

Today's #materialmondays is a guest post from Ange

Today's #materialmondays is a guest post from Angeliki Lymberopoulou, a Senior Lecturer in Art History at the OU.
The year 2021 marks the year of the Ox in the Chinese calendar, which starts 12th February. The Chinese calendar has also a cycle based on twelve zodiacs, but unlike the monthly rotation that characterises this cycle in the west within a given year, the Chinese cycle is annual. The ox is the second in this sequence.
As an animal of substantial strength and of vital importance in agriculture over the course of many centuries, it is not surprising that the ox has been used as a symbol in many different cultures and/or religions around the world. While the Ox does not form part of the zodiac cycle in the West it, nevertheless, fulfils an important role in Christian iconography as the apocalyptic symbol for Saint Luke the Evangelist. Saint Luke wrote the third of the four Gospels of the Christian New Testament, preceded by Matthew and Mark and followed by John. The four Gospels narrate Christ’s incarnation and passion and, therefore, lie at the core of the Christian faith. As such, the symbols of their authors could accompany a representation of an Enthroned Christ to visually underline their importance in Christian religion.
In this icon by the post-Byzantine Cretan painter Emmanuel Tzanes, Christ’s impressive and bulky figure is depicted seated on a marble throne flanked by the four symbols of the Evangelists, all holding books as a visual reference to their authored Gospels and all directing their gaze towards Christ, the centre of their narratives: lion for Mark, angel for Matthew, eagle for John and ox for Luke.

For more on iconography, watch our film: http://www.openartsarchive.org/resource/open-arts-object-critical-term-iconography

📷: Emmanouel Tzanes, Christ Enthroned (with the symbols of the four Evangelists), 1664, tempera on panel, Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens (available in Wikimedia Commons)

#arthistory #ouarthistory #artists #historyofart #OUrArtHistory #artstagram #artoftheday #arteducation #art #whyarthistorymatters #artmatters #arteducationmatters

Many of us in the UK got #snow over the weekend, s

Many of us in the UK got #snow over the weekend, so today's #materialmondays is a #Cotswold Village, Under Snow by Flattely. Photo credit: Royal West of England Academy (RWA), from @artukdotorg’s website.

#arthistory #ouarthistory #artists #historyofart #OUrArtHistory #artstagram #artoftheday #arteducation #art #whyarthistorymatters #artmatters #arteducationmatters

Today's #MaterialMondays brings you #salisburycath

Today's #MaterialMondays brings you #salisburycathedral. #Cathedrals have always been more than just places of worship; they have served as refuges, spaces for community gatherings, and now, the site of a major vaccination centre.

#arthistory #ouarthistory #artists #historyofart #OUrArtHistory #artstagram #artoftheday #arteducation #art #whyarthistorymatters #artmatters #arteducationmatters #architecture #medievalarchitecture

"Have nothing in your houses that you do not know

"Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful." -William Morris
As many of us in the UK face another couple of months in #lockdown, #WilliamMorris's quote probably feels particularly resonant, now that we're spending so much of our time in our #homes. Morris was a pioneer of the #artsandcrafts movement and his patterns are still very popular today.
This week's #MaterialMondays: Honeysuckle, furnishing fabric, designed by William Morris, made for Morris & Co., 1876, museum number: CIRC.491-1965
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London

#arthistory #ouarthistory #artists #historyofart #OUrArtHistory #artstagram #artoftheday #arteducation #art #whyarthistorymatters #artmatters #arteducationmatters #vandamuseum

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Today’s #MaterialMondays comes from Carla Benzan

Today’s #MaterialMondays comes from Carla Benzan, Lecturer in Art History at the OU, & is in honour of #BirdDay in the UK and celebrates the role of amateurs and artisans in ornithology! This is just one of a series of 156 amazing feather collages made by the head gardener to the Spanish Governor of Milan around 1618. Each of the detailed images in his “Feather Book” was composed of feather fragments taken from the same bird being depicted. The sense of the physical presence of the bird was completed by attaching the preserved beak and talon from each the species to the surface of the page.

📷image: Dionisio Minaggio, “Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis)”, 1618. Feather, paper, preserved skin on paper. In: Feather Book(Libro di Piume), fol. 39.

#AmateurBirder
#ArtisanalKnowledge
#Realism
#Taxidermy
#Biodiversity
#EarlyOrnithology
#Feather painting
#arthistory #ouarthistory #artists #historyofart #OUrArtHistory #artstagram #artoftheday #arteducation #art #whyarthistorymatters #artmatters #arteducationmatters

We will be taking a break over the holidays. To al

We will be taking a break over the holidays. To all educators & teachers: make sure to take a break after a hard year of teaching! To all our supporters, viewers, speakers, and partners, thank you for your continued support. See you in 2021!
...& if you're bored over the holidays, why not check out our 50+ free films? for a start, you might want to watch our film on Hiroshige, the artist of this print! Link in bio.

#hiroshige #arthistory #ouarthistory #artists #historyofart #OUrArtHistory #artstagram #artoftheday #arteducation #art #whyarthistorymatters #artmatters #arteducationmatters #winterscene

Today’s #materialmondays comes from Emma Barker,

Today’s #materialmondays comes from Emma Barker, Sr Lecturer in #ArtHistory at the OU: from the Royal Academy where, in December 1768, #AngelicaKauffman was one of only two female founder members - there wasn’t another until 1936.
A major exhibition celebrating Kauffman’s achievements that was due to be held at the RA this year sadly fell casualty to COVID.
📷: #Kauffman, Design, 1778-80, @royalacademyarts

#arthistory #ouarthistory #artists #historyofart #OUrArtHistory #artstagram #artoftheday #arteducation #art #whyarthistorymatters #artmatters #arteducationmatters

Today's #materialmondays comes from Sam Shaw, Lect

Today's #materialmondays comes from Sam Shaw, Lecturer in #ArtHistory at the OU: Edvard #Munch, born 12 Dec 1863, and subject of current exhibition at the @royalacademyarts, is often seen as a lonely genius. Like his contemporary Aubrey Beardsley, he was especially drawn to medical and biological motifs. See, for instance, the foetus and spermatozoa circling his 1895 ‘Madonna’.

#arthistory #ouarthistory #artists #historyofart #OUrArtHistory #artstagram #artoftheday #arteducation #art #whyarthistorymatters #artmatters #arteducationmatters #edvardmunch

Today's #materialmondays comes from Clare Taylor,

Today's #materialmondays comes from Clare Taylor, Senior Lecturer in #ArtHistory at the OU: “in the fourth Block of A112, the OU's new interdisciplinary module, we will be exploring the handkerchief #TraceyEmin designed for Momart’s 1999 Christmas gift: ‘Be Faithful to your Dreams’"

very seasonal!

Here's Clare Taylor discussing the handkerchief in the OU's studios!

Tracey Emin/Edvard #Munch show coming soon to London’s @royalacademyarts!

#arthistory #ouarthistory #artists #historyofart #OUrArtHistory #artstagram #artoftheday #arteducation #art #whyarthistorymatters #artmatters #arteducationmatters

Today's #materialmondays is some medical advice fr

Today's #materialmondays is some medical advice from the #Renaissance: in the domestic environment, scattering flowers and fragrant herbs on tables and floors as well as burning aromatic substances was recommended during periods of epidemics. We're not advising this to counteract #covid, but it will make your house smell pleasant! Here's a #woodcut of a Renaissance #distillery, producing #essentialoils from plants.

#arthistory #ouarthistory #artists #historyofart #OUrArtHistory #artstagram #artoftheday #arteducation #art #whyarthistorymatters #artmatters #arteducationmatters #renaissanceremedies

Today's #materialmondays is in honour of #toulouse

Today's #materialmondays is in honour of #toulouselautrec's birth anniversary tomorrow. It's a #lithograph from 1895 of May Belfort, an Irish singer well-known on the Parisian nightclub scene, who was often seen with her black #cat! 📷: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

#arthistory #ouarthistory #artists #historyofart #OUrArtHistory #artstagram #artoftheday #arteducation #art #whyarthistorymatters #artmatters #arteducationmatters

Today's #MaterialMonday is Chila Kumari Singh Burm

Today's #MaterialMonday is Chila Kumari Singh Burman's Tate Britain Winter commission, 'remembering a brave new world', which has been installed on the façade of the building to coincide with #Diwali - the Hindu, Sikh and Jain festival of lights. Image: Tate (Joe Humphrys).

The installation 'combines Hindu mythology, Bollywood imagery, colonial history and personal memories' of the Blackpool Illuminations and the family ice cream van.

https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/chila-kumari-singh-burman

#ArtHistory #OUArtHistory #Artists #HistoryOfArt #OUrArtHistory #ArtOfTheDay #ArtEducation #Art #WhyArtHistoryMatters #ArtMatters #ArtEducationMatters

William Hogarth was born on this day in 1697. Some

William Hogarth was born on this day in 1697. Some of his paintings were lost/destroyed/exist only in print form – but that didn’t stop other artists from imagining what they looked like! Here’s a copy after Hogarth’s A Midnight Modern Conversation,from @YaleBritishArt This artist decided to change the format – why do you think they did this? #otd #hogarth

William Hogarth was born on this day in 1697. Some

William Hogarth was born on this day in 1697. Some of his paintings were lost/destroyed/exist only in print form – but that didn’t stop other artists from imagining what they looked like! Here’s a copy after Hogarth’s A Midnight Modern Conversation from @leicestermuseums which is due to appear in an exhibition on Hogarth opening next year, co-curated by OU Lecturer Samuel Shaw. #otd

William #Hogarth was born on this day in 1697. Som

William #Hogarth was born on this day in 1697. Some of his paintings were lost/destroyed/exist only in print form – but that didn’t stop other artists from imagining what they looked like! Here are three copies after Hogarth’s A Midnight Modern Conversation, all available on @artukdotorg The first is from @petworthnt #OTD

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